[Zope] Re: display Word doc in browser

[David Hassalevris]

Josef Meile wrote:

>> This sounds like either a client problem or a lot of work ;-)
>>
>> If it's a client problem, you need to get the users to tweak their 
>> browsers such that word docs are opened in the browser window rather 
>> than being downloaded.
>>
>> If you want a lot of work, then you need some serverside way of 
>> redering the word document to html so you can display it.
>>
>> I'd go for the former of the two ;-)
>
> Wouldn't be possible to modify the html header? Once I saw a similar
> post and they talk about this. There is a way of forcing the browser
> trying to open the file first, but unfortunately I don't have the
> thread any more.
>
> Regards,
> Josef
> ________________


One idea is to find a utility that converts Word into PDF.  I know that 
Word converts to Web pages.  Maybe you write an external python script 
that can do this.  Hammond wrote a book, Python programming on Win32 
that covers stuff like interfacing COM and Word using Python.

David


David